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Subject: RE: cygcheck -svc segfaults on Windows 8.1 with cygwin64
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:41:20 +0000
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> On Nov 19 14:20, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> > On 11/19/2013 2:03 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >Looks like it, yes.  What on earth were they thinking?
> >
> > Who says they were thinking? ;-)
> 
> Point.
> 
> I found what happened:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
> us/library/windows/desktop/dn302074%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Hmm... from the quoted link:

    We have made some significant changes in how the GetVersion(Ex) APIs 
    work in Windows 8.1 due to undesirable customer behaviors resulting from how 
    the GetVersion(Ex) APIs have been used in the past.

Pesky customers won't behave the way we want them to...  (sinister music)